Assistant Professor
Office: Reed House
Office Phone:  724-847-6783
jsward@geneva.edu

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Communication

Degrees Received

• Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Duquesne University
• M.A. in Rhetoric, Duquesne University
• B.A. in English, Huntington University

Courses Taught

• COM 215 - Argumentation and Debate
• COM 225 - Culture and Communication

Selected Presentations/Publications

• “The Pietistic Institution: A Problem of Organizational Identity” in Whole and Holy Persons: A Pietist Approach to Higher Education. Ed. Chris Gehrz. Westmont: InterVarsity Press.
• Ward, J.S. and David Stern. “A Case for Interfaith Discourse” in Interfaith Dialogue in Practice: Christian Muslim, Jew. Ed. Daniel Brown. Kansas City: Rockhurst University Press, 2012.
• “Third World Identity.” Encyclopedia of Identity Ed. Ronald L. Jackson. SAGE, 2010.
• Book Review: Arthos, John. The Inner Word in Gadamer′s Hermeneutics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009 in Journal of Communication and Religion 33.2, 2010.

Current Projects

• Book: Authority and Personality in Mikhail Bakhtin′s “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity”
• Article: “Mediated Persona: Digital Time and Aesthetics”

Research Interests

• Mediated Communication
• Persuasion
• Personality Development

Consulting Expertise

• Partner & Content Strategist, Durable LLC

Awards & Distinctions Received

• Dissertation of the Year Award, Religious Communication Assoc., 2014
• Richard H. Thames Teaching Award, 2010
• Top Panel Award, Central States Communication Association, 2014

Professional Society Memberships

• Religious Communication Association (RCA)
• Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
• National Communication Association (NCA)

Miscellaneous, e.g., hobbies, sports, personal info, etc.

• bicycling, coffee brewing, reading, song writing